Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (not pictured) in Budapest, Hungary January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A new charm offensive should buy Poland time in its confrontation with the EU over backsliding on democracy, but Warsaw will have to make some real policy changes to match the warmer words or risk losing some funds from the bloc.
Poland, under the Catholic, nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) in power since 2015, has become one of the main headaches for the EU, worried that some ex-communist states in eastern Europe are becoming more authoritarian.
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